Ince seems to be spending a fair bit of time on the bench at Watford Still prob proving a useful signing for them, bit of depth Ince never particularly convinced. Good from dead balls and high work rate but little else. It isn’t difficult to look the “danger man” in the team when your Dad lines you...
Poor at both ends of the pitch. Struggle to see a strategy or plan to score goals and win games of football. If we’re going to try and play narrow through the thirds of the pitch, it needs to be done with urgency and tempo and not at the slow pedestrian speed we maintain. For as limited as Oxford we...
Pochettino has to be close to the exit door now. I predict Mr Mourinho will be Chelsea manager by the end of January. Can’t see it happening Mourinho may be plenty of things but one thing he isn’t is stupid and surely he can see that the young squad they’ve assembled won’t match what he needs, woul...
A very good Fulham side though it has to be said. Couldn't quite believe Reading were 2-0 up at half time esp. as I thought looked a bit "iffy' at the back and so it proved, cue fairly uncommon loss of two goal lead as quick as possible on restart. If only Clarke hadn't have been such a total ...
I can remember being so freaking excited when we signed Vydra. On paper, Vydra and Sa as a front two should easily have been enough for promotion, especially with the likes of an inform Blackman, McCleary, Norwood etc behind Fulham game completely derailed our season (or to be more precise, 10 minu...
Good to see Barkley seems to be playing well again. And Osho - well, he just makes you want to throttle someone. Is Arteta capable of reversing his decision re the ‘keeper? Ramsdale had his brain fart moments but he’s a better bet than Raya who is becoming a bit of a liability. It was an odd decisi...
Add Martial to that list. Application is so poor When you add the likes of Sancho and Pogba to that list, it’s not entirely surprising United have been poor for a while now. They did OK last season but still a fair distance away from the big boys and they won’t ever catch up with the likes of Rashf...
The “next round” lol…it could’ve been Walsall, Port Vale or anyone….as it would’ve been, Barnet or Newport…. Nice Yeah, so that's £67k, plus gate receipts, plus good chance of £100k prize money and then more gate receipts. The team was just starting to rebuild some confidence after a dreadful perio...
Holmes seemed far more determined to get his head on the ball when he was being headlocked and dragged to the ground in the opposition box than he did on a basic corner routine in our own box in the 94th min. Guess always been my frustration with him that he seems to get beaten like that too often ...
Rashford is becoming a joke of a player. Bags of talent - pathetic mentality. I’d go so far as to say he’s a disgrace. Add Martial to that list. Application is so poor When you add the likes of Sancho and Pogba to that list, it’s not entirely surprising United have been poor for a while now. They d...
Maguire critics gone quiet in recent weeks. Almost like he wasn’t as bad as the media (and others) liked to portray
Sure, he has limitations and will likely come unstuck against the top teams but he’s still a decent defender, the witch hunt against him was embarrassing
Let’s be honest you don’t come through an academy like inter Milan's and play regularly for their b team unless there is some sort of raw talent there. Of course raw talent is only one of a number of metrics that a player needs to be a successful footballer. We all know that. But for whatever reaso...
Do other teams consistently do this inverted winger thing? Could understand it with Meite when he was good as he played the role to perfection. But he was crap at it last year, Azeez isn’t great at it now either Azeez has a decent cross on him, why take that out of his game? Put Azeez left and play...
Very small defence of Selles but this “mental fragility” has been evident for years now. Go through every season and it’s the same pattern. Good set of results, one poor result and we collapse The 2 goal lead we threw away under Clarke at Fulham threw that season. The 2 late goals against Cardiff u...
8 goals conceded in the 90th minute in the last 8 games. Quite possibly could have been 9 if Bristol had been awarded their deserved penalty on Tuesday Team are mentally shot, desperately needs a new direction because it’s not going to happen under Selles We’re mentally the frailest team I’ve ever ...
Great game this Chelsea v City. Haaland’s assist from his own cock. Indeed. Mentioned before that I’m really not a fan of watching City but those 10-15% of games where teams (successfully) take them on and don’t sit deep produce excellent spectacles (similar to the 3-3 draw at Newcastle last season...
8 goals conceded in the 90th minute in the last 8 games. Quite possibly could have been 9 if Bristol had been awarded their deserved penalty on Tuesday
Team are mentally shot, desperately needs a new direction because it’s not going to happen under Selles
Just like under Ince, Gomes, Paunovic and co, we have a defence that can’t keep a clean sheet, a blunt attack and very average midfielders with no real identity who offer little. It’s not a recipe for success.